How to teach conversation Step 1: Have Sts look at the picture carefully and answer some questions related to the picture Tips: Speaking out the English words Sts know in the conversat
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Trang 2How to teach conversation
Step 1: Have Sts look at the picture carefully and answer some questions related to the picture
Tips: Speaking out the English words Sts know in the conversation
Step 2: Sts listen and read silently and then listen and repeat after the recording
Step 3: Ask Sts to translate the conversation into Vietnamese
Step 4: Role-play the conversation with a partner (without if can)
Note: focus on pronunciation and intonation
Step 5: Sts write the knowledge in their notebook, underline or highlight markers to color the key words, main structures
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Step 6:
- Look for: tìm kiếm
Eg: I’m looking for a new job.
- can/ can’t + V(inf): có thể/ không thể làm gì
Eg: She can play tennis
Tom can’t speak Vietnamese.
Homework: You change information in the conversation based on your way.
What color is it?
→ It’s + color.
Trang 4Game 1: Musical conversation
Have Sts move around the room while T plays music.
When T stops the music, Sts begin conversations with the S closest to them.
They use conversation in the textbook as a model, add some information Sts
want
Note: When you turn up the volume, Sts shout to begin conversations with the Sts closest to them
Trang 5Game 2: Create
After learning a dialogue, have them workin groups or in pairs, creating a similar
conversation
Have them practice as a conversation in pairs or groups
Have them change partners The teacher should help the Sts express their ideas.
Eg:
A: Who’s that? A: Who’s that?
B: It’s my father B: It’s my mother
A: What’s his job? A: What’s her job?
B: He’s a doctor B: She’s a teacher
Trang 6Game 3: Say it with Feeling
Explain the task Sts listen to the audio, focusing on the speaker’s intonation and emotions (angry, happy, surprise,…)
Play the audio Ask Sts to repeat selected phrases with the correct intonation
Encourage them to exaggerate the intonation They can also add gestures, if appropriate
Sts practise the conversation in pairs using lots of intonation Then they change roles and practise again
Note: Ask pairs of Sts to perform the conversation in front of the class The class
votes for the best performance
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Point out that it’s important to look at your partner when speaking
Explain the task Sts work in pairs, S1 looks briefly at the first line of the conversation and tries to remember it Then S1 looks up at S2 and say the line S2 looks briefly at the next line of the conversation, tries to remember it and then looks
up and says it
Model the task with one or two Sts
Sts complete the task in pairs
Note: This technique works best when Sts stand up and face each other It’s a useful way to help Sts develop eye contact while speaking
Trang 8Game 5: Reorder
Sts work in groups
Give each group a set of four pictures/ sentences in the reading/conversation/story
Ask Sts to work in groups to reorder the reading/conversation/story then they use glue to stick them in the A4-sized paper
Trang 9Game 6: True or False line
Put in line of tape on the floor and draw one
side “True” and the other “False”
T says a sentence in the lesson If Sts think
the sentence T has said is correct, they jump
to the “True” side And if not, they jump to
the “False” side
Sts that jump to the wrong side are out of
the game and sit down